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A critique of the balanced harvesting approach to fishing by Froese, Rainer, Walters, Carl, Pauly, Daniel, Winker, Henning, Weyl, Olaf L. F., Demirel, Nazli, Tsikliras, Athanassios C., Holt, Sidney J.

“…The approach to fisheries termed “balanced harvesting” (BH) calls for fishing across the widest possible range of species, stocks, and sizes in an ecosystem,…”
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Three lumps of coal: doing fisheries research in Lowestoft in the 1940s by Holt, Sidney J

“…Abstract Following graduation from the University of Reading in 1946, I was offered a job as a “Naturalist” at the Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory. I learned to…”
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Becoming a marine scientist: helped by a daily quota of three lumps of coal by Holt, Sidney J

“…Abstract Growing up in the 1930s and being educated in England was much easier than it is now. The high school curriculum was necessarily pretty limited, and…”
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Balanced harvesting: The institutional incompatibilities by Pauly, Daniel, Froese, Rainer, Holt, Sidney J.

“…Balanced harvesting is the name of a newly proposed approach to fishing which promises the extraction of high and sustainable fisheries yields while…”
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Evolution of the theory of rational fishing. The case study of the North Sea by Holt, Sidney J., Raicevich, Saša

“…Demersal fishing in the North Sea has a long and fairly well documented history. The Southern North Sea seems to be a biologically rich region in which all the…”
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Reply to Andersen et al. (2016) “Assumptions behind size-based ecosystem models are realistic” by Froese, Rainer, Walters, Carl, Pauly, Daniel, Winker, Henning, Weyl, Olaf L. F., Demirel, Nazli, Tsikliras, Athanassios C., Holt, Sidney J.

“…In a recent publication (Froese et al., ICES Journal of Marine Science; 73: 1640–1650), we presented a critique of the balanced harvesting (BH) approach to…”
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Whaling: Will the Phoenix rise again? by Holt, Sidney J.

“…It is argued that Japan’s authorities and entrepreneurs involved in whaling and the whale-meat trade have a long-term goal of rebuilding a large and profitable…”
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Comment on the Article "Fueling Global Fishing Fleets" by Tyedmers, Watson, and Pauly. Ambio 34(8) 635-638 by Holt, Sidney J.

“…Tyedmers, Watson, and Pauly have usefully drawn attention to the vast scale and global distribution of petroleum oil consumption by marine fishing. It is…”
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Tackling the old familiar problems of pollution, habitat alteration and overfishing will help with adapting to climate change by Holt, Sidney J

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The Tortuous History of “Scientific” Japanese Whaling by HOLT, SIDNEY J

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Management of Multispecies Fisheries by May, Robert M., Beddington, John R., Clark, Colin W., Holt, Sidney J., Laws, Richard M.

“…With the overexploitation of many conventional fish stocks, and growing interest in harvesting new kinds of food from the sea, there is increasing need for…”
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Counting Whales in the North Atlantic by Holt, Sidney J., Mitchell, Edward D., Palumbi, Stephen R., Roman, Joe

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The graceful sigmoid: Johan Hjort's contribution to the theory of rational fishing by Holt, Sidney J.

“…This historical essay describes the theory behind, and implications of, models of optimum yield from an exploited animal population (in particular for whaling)…”
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Fifty Years On by Holt, Sidney J

“…The 'traditional' approach to providing fisheries management advice through assembly of a population model, estimation of its parameters, identification of…”
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ICES meets marine historical ecology: placing the history of fish and fisheries in current policy context by Engelhard, Georg H., Thurstan, Ruth H., MacKenzie, Brian R., Alleway, Heidi K., Bannister, R. Colin A., Cardinale, Massimiliano, Clarke, Maurice W., Currie, Jock C., Fortibuoni, Tomaso, Holm, Poul, Holt, Sidney J., Mazzoldi, Carlotta, Pinnegar, John K., Raicevich, Saša, Volckaert, Filip A. M., Klein, Emily S., Lescrauwaet, Ann-Katrien

“…As a discipline, marine historical ecology (MHE) has contributed significantly to our understanding of the past state of the marine environment when levels of…”
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Whales, science and activism by Holt, Sidney J

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Loopholes exploited in whaling regulation by Holt, Sidney J

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Letter to the Editor by Holt, Sidney J.

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AIDS debate continues by Holt, Sidney J

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Harvesting of whales by Holt, Sidney J

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